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Day number one of our travels, the day where the fact that we’re going on a ROAD TRIP may actually hit us.
7:00- Wake up, burst of energy. “*beat* we’re actually going”. We finish up our packing, such as getting things into the car, finishing toiletries, and moving things from the fridge into the cooler.
8:40- We leave, first stopping at QFC, the bank and starbucks. We head south on I-5. Amy is freaking out for her pending drive test.
10:00- Arrive in Auburn, our first pit stop. For, of course, one of the most important “to-dos”. We have an hour to kill before my drive test starts. We take Max to a local park, walk around, see the sights.
11:15- Have to wait another 15 minutes for drive test, they’re backed up.
11:35- Amy takes drive test, embarasses herself on both backing around a corner and parrallel parking, but passes the test nonetheless. I -(yes, I will refer to myself in both 3rd and 1st person, not just in one post, but in one paragraph)- am thrilled, take a picture of me with my license. Sadly, it takes us an hour and a half in line to actually get my license, meaning we can’t leave until 1:00pm. During this hour and a half, Laura entertains many kids outside with Max. One young girl, possibly 8 or so in age, asks Laura if her daughter passed her drive test. Yes, her daughter. Laura very kindly responded, “what are you, dumb?” or “well, my sister did”. One or the other. This is a profound moment in Laura’s life. At 21, she can be the mother of an 18 year old.
1:00- Begin route to Portland to see Jeffrey and Jolene!
4:20- Arrive in Portland to a house full of food. They made delious food for us, including pancakes (made from scratch!), mashed potatoes, and ribs (ucky says the vegetarian). We sit and visit for a few, very enjoyable hours. Jolene shows a picture that she took in which Jeff looks exactly like B (other brother who may wish to remain nameless), its amazing actually. (She cut his hair the same) We are very sad when we have to go, but we must travel on.
6:50- We start travel towards Boise, with plans to stop at one of many campgrounds from Oregon to Idaho. We weren’t sure which we’d get to. Beautiful scenary. “We never knew Oregon was so pretty!”. Amazing, taking tons of pictures which do not begin to capture the true beauty of the water, the rocks of which we continuously try to identify and the neverending evergreens.
8:00- Beautiful sunset
9:00- Turn on the loud, energetic music so we stay awake. I start to drift to sleep, kinda hurt my neck. Well, what you’d imagine from sleeping with your head dangling and waking up suddenly, lifting your head too quickly.
11:30- Pull into rest stop, see no “no overnight stay”signs. Decide to stay overnight. We didn’t want to bother moving the stuff and putting the seats down, therefore Amy sat in the back seat and Laura in the passenger. Max got drivers seat. Woke up well rested, albeit rather sore and stiff (couldn’t ever extend to full length). Max behaved very well, we never disturbed the other guests there. We were able to leave bright and early. (Before 7:00am). We have no idea where we stopped, somewhere in Eastern Oregon. (Laura says somewhere near Pembleton).
Amy
Written: 8.22.07
4 comments:
That's wild. I am beaming with pride for Amy's license-getting!
I hardly think you could be Amy's mother, Laura. Children can be offensive.
I am excited to read the next post. (Immediately)
Finally, you got your driver's license!
My favorite part was Laura (almost) being an 18 year old's mother.
Is Jolene Jeff's girlfriend? The ASIAN one?
Well Laura is wrinkly. Her whole life her hands have been old. And I can just imagine what those smile lines that grow daily will look like soon.
J/K! I love you Laura!!
And yes, Jolene is Jeff's girlfriend.
And yay! I have a license.
Yay for passing the drivers test! At least you don’t have dangerous right hand turns. Daughter, eh? It’s Glimore Girls all over again. Now I want to go to Oregon. Sounds like fun.
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